Grease-cup.



R. HICKISH.

GREASE CUP. APPLICATION FILED JULYZ5, 1910 Patented Feb. 14, 1911.

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ROBERT HICKISH, OF TUCKAHOE, NEW YORK.

GREASE-CUP.

Application filed July 25, 1910.

Another object of the invention is to con struct a cup which is provided with a simple and inexpensive means, whereby the. cup can he retilled with lubricating material with out unscrewingthe same from the part to be lubricated, and without disengaging from each other any of the parts forming said cap.

\Vith these and other objects in view, which will more fully appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the

' same consists in the construction. arrangement and. combination of the several parts hereinafter fully described, pointed out in the appended claim and illustrated in the accon'ipanying drawings One of the many possible embodiments of the invention isjillnstratetl in the accoin panying drawings, in which Figure l is a vertical central section of a grease enp constructed in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is an end view of its valve casing and the valve; Fig. 3 is a. frontelevation ot' the valve casing and the valve; l ig. t, is a rear elevation of said valve casing and valve; Fig. 5 is rt plan view of the grease. cup; and Figs. (3 and 7 are.

line X-X ot? Fig. showseetionis taken on and. closed posiing the. valve in its open tions. 1

In the. drawings, the numeral 5 indicates the base of the cup, provided with a cylindrical flange portion 6, the inner face of which is provided with screw threads 7, which mesh with the. screw threads 8 of the grease cup body 9. This body comprises a tubular member which is open at its lower end and closed at its upper end by a cover 10, which latter may be made integral with the body portion of the cup, or may he tastened thereto in any suitable manner. The base portion 5 of the cup/1s provided with a Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 14, 1911. Serial No. 573,647.

centrally arranged stem 11. throughout which leads a passage 12 v the grease cup. This stem is screw threaded externally. as shown at [3, for aztaching the grease cup to the bearing or other parts to be lubricated. In the cover 10 formed a central opening 1-l.,-through which projects the plunger-rod it), which carries on its lower end a piston 16, snugly fitting the inner surt'ace of the body portion 9 of the grease cup and bearing against the surface of the grease. A helical spring 17 bears against the inner surface of the cover per tion 10 and the piston 16, keeping thereby .the piston down against the grease at all times to insure a constant discharge thereof from the cup.

Upon the side of the base portion of the cup is formed a cylil'ldrical extension 18. in which is formed a passage 19 leading to the interior of the cup. This extension is provided with external screw threads 20, meshing with the internal screw threads 21 ot' the valve casing 22. The valve. casing coinprises, preferably, a cylindrical member, having a valve seat 23. upon which is arranged a valve ball A, which is forced against its seat 25 upon the extension 18 when the valve. casing is tightly screwed in to its place. The. valve casing is provided with a oore fi leading at right angles to the axis of the passage ll) through the valve casing. and adapted to register with the hole 27 in the valve ball 24 when the axis of said hole is arranged at right. angles to the axis of the passage 1.5). is formed in the valve casing and extends from the face 3%) of said casing in the dirertioivofthe longitudinal axis of the same to the bore 26 for a'pnrpose hereinafter to be described.

The plunger-rod 15 is provided with ratchet teeth 30, which are adapted to he engaged by a detent or don 31, which is slidably arranged upon the cover portion 10 of the cup, and keptin t ngaren'ient with said ratchet teeth by n'ieans of a spring 32, arranged in any suitable manner upon the cover 10. At its rear end the detent can ries a lug 3:5. cooperating with a bellcranlt' lever 34, t'ulcrumed M135 to a brace 36, supported by the cover portion 10. and kept by means of a spring 237 in contact with the lu; 33. The spring 37 is fastened to the bellcrank lever 3i and to the detent 31. A- pin to the interior of.

38 attached tothe plungei' rod Iii-and is l reaches its lowermostadapted to actuate the bellcrank lever 34: in a manner to be described.

The operation ofthe device is as follows: In order to fill; 'thooup; with the lubricating materialf theend of the stem of a grease pumpis v'larought intoengagement through the bore'26- with" the hole 27 in the valve ball and the-said valve rotated until its hole registers. with the passage 19, leading to the interior of the cup.v The recess 28 allows such operation; whereby the stem of the pump will be arranged in the axis of the passage 19. The passage 12, leading from the interior; of the cup to the object to be lubricated, is then closed by a valve 12.

- after which the pump is operated. As the lubricating material is now forced into the grease cup, the piston 16 will be forced upward against the action of the spring 17.

vAs the piston is moved upward, the ratchet teeth are engaged one after the other with the detent or dog 31, which latter holds the piston in any intermediate position and prevents the spring 17 from forcing the piston toward the base, whereby the lubricating material is kept in the cup. As soon as the enlarged end 39 of the plunger-rod forces the detent outward, the spring 37, which tends to raise the substantially horizontal arm of the bell-crank lever 34, engages the said bellorank lever 34 with the inner face of the lug 33 0f the (letent, and keeps there by the same out of the path of the ratchet teeth. In turning the valve, ball into a position so that its hole 27 comes to lie at right angles to the axis of the passage 19, and opening the passage 12, the lubrication is started automaticall As the lubrication now proceeds, the piston descends toward the base of the cup. "When the piston teeth when sai nearer position, the finger 38 will depress the substantially horizontal arm or the hell-crank lever 34: and thus disengage the same from the lug 33 of the detent, whereby the spring 32 is left free to act, forcing thereby said detent into engagement with one of the ratchet teeth, whereby the device is ready for refilling.

What I claim is:

In a grease cup, the combination With a base provided with an aperture for the passage of the grease to the bearing, of a closed tubular body detachably fastened to said base so as to form therewith the cup and having a centrally arranged opening in its cover, a piston operating in said body, a plunger-rod attached to said piston and passing through said opening in the coverteeth upon said plunger-rod, a spring pressed dog adapted to engage said ratchet teeth for holding said piston against the action of said spring in intermediate positions between its uppermost and lowermost positions in said tubular body, means for autorn'atically disen aging said dog from said most position, a tubular extension upon said T base forming a passage leading to the interror of said cup, a valve casing attached to said extension, and a valve in said casing for controlling said passage, substantially as specified,

Signed ahld'ew York, in the county of New York and State of New' York, this 31st day of May fii. D. 1910.

ROBERT HICKISH. Witnesses: 1

- S. BIBNBAUM Jones E, Benn.

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